While South Koreans faced a brutal economic collapse, a 1998 cable shows the U.S. managing a nuclear crisis to ensure Seoul followed a script for President Clinton's visit.
By Roy Castellano ·
For years, the risk of a nuclear North Korea was managed through heavy fuel oil and a fragile two-track policy that depended on a U.S. Congress that did not want to pay
By Eleanor Voss ·
Kept confidential for decades, a 1998 cable shows how a desperate need for fertilizer nearly broke a four-year silence while the U.S. feared a nuclear betrayal.
By Roy Castellano ·
Nearly a million people starved to death in North Korea while Secret State Department officials calculated if fuel oil could stop a nuclear crisis in a record kept from public view for decades.
By Eleanor Voss ·
A confidential 1998 cable shows how South Korea’s economic fragility and a stalled energy project pushed the peninsula to the edge of a nuclear restart.
By Roy Castellano ·
A security crisis on the peninsula loomed as the U.S. pressed Seoul to resolve funding gaps for nuclear reactors and heavy fuel oil while famine worsened in the North.
By Eleanor Voss ·